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The Forger

An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin

Contributors

By Cioma Schönhaus

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Jan 25, 2008
Page Count
240 pages
ISBN-13
9780306817656

Price

$9.99

Price

$12.99 CAD

Format

ebook

Format:

ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD

In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schöus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Yet, even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daringly adventurous life, replete with fine restaurants and beautiful women, all the while managing to elude the Nazis. Breathtakingly bold, Schöus talked his way out of an arrest, defended Jewish diners being harassed by the police, and ultimately fled Germany by bicycling to Switzerland. Schöus’s story-his courageous exploits that saved so many, as many others around him were deported, one by one, to the concentration camps-is an astonishing tale of wartime heroism and survival.


Cioma Schönhaus

About the Author

Cioma Schöus was born in Berlin in 1922. While on the Gestapo’s wanted list, he escaped, with forged papers, to Switzerland, where he still lives.

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